{"id":155102,"date":"2023-01-10T14:27:51","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T20:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/in-a-first-a-solar-powered-reactor-converted-plastic-and-greenhouse-gases-into-sustainable-fuels"},"modified":"2023-01-10T14:27:51","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T20:27:51","slug":"in-a-first-a-solar-powered-reactor-converted-plastic-and-greenhouse-gases-into-sustainable-fuels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/in-a-first-a-solar-powered-reactor-converted-plastic-and-greenhouse-gases-into-sustainable-fuels","title":{"rendered":"In a first, a solar-powered reactor converted plastic and greenhouse gases into sustainable fuels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/in-a-first-a-solar-powered-reactor-converted-plastic-and-greenhouse-gases-into-sustainable-fuels2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Under normal temperature and pressure conditions, the reactor could efficiently convert plastic bottles and CO2 into CO, syngas, and glycolic acid.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the University of Cambridge developed a first-of-its-kind system that can simultaneously convert plastic waste and greenhouse gases into two chemical products by drawing energy from the sun.<\/p>\n<p>The results are reported in the journal Nature Synthesis.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Onurdongel\/iStock.<\/p>\n<p>In a solar-powered reactor, carbon dioxide (CO2) and plastics are converted into sustainable fuels and valuable products used in various industries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under normal temperature and pressure conditions, the reactor could efficiently convert plastic bottles and CO2 into CO, syngas, and glycolic acid. Researchers from the University of Cambridge developed a first-of-its-kind system that can simultaneously convert plastic waste and greenhouse gases into two chemical products by drawing energy from the sun. The results are reported in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1497,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-energy","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}